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March 3, 2019 by
Public Charities are the New Corporate Takeovers

Ask Artblog scribe Beth Heinly gets an ambiguous question and answers it her way. Read Beth’s take on public charities aka foundations and the problem of foundation funding in the art world. A very good read for artists and art lovers alike. Have a question about the Art Life for Ask Artblog? Email ask@theartblog.org. Or submit a Google form with your question. There’s a link to the Google form at the bottom of the post below. All names kept anonymous.

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January 24, 2019 by
From public to republic, a letter to the public at Icebox Project Space

Guest contributor Mina Zarfsaz describes the power of “Letter to the Public,” an interactive installation currently on view at Icebox Project Space through January 26th.

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September 4, 2015 by
Without fanfare, ta da, Fanfare for Crossing the Road happens in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia “Fanfare” will be added into a short video documenting the ongoing project, which was performed previously in London, Cardiff, Helsinki, and Lisbon.

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In a 9-panel comic from the Socialist Grocery series by Oli Knowles, Sebastian begins the first panel narrating to an image of a front door, "In 2020, I lived in a one bedroom apartment, and one day when I was at work..." Sebastian continues onto the right panel, backgrounded with an image of a computer saying download cashapp, "...Someone broke in and took my computer. They tried to use my cashapp account to-" The below panel shows Sebastian's phone in hand, "-Send themselves $10,000. Luckily I only had $4 at the time." The middle left panel displays Sebastian in bed with their partner Maggie both sleeping soundly, Sebastian continues, "I still have dreams frequently. Years later, about my cashapp getting hacked." In the middle right panel Sebastian and his coworker Mickey are shown, both wearing masks and glasses, "Most recently, I had a dream that my coworker, Micky, stole $4,000 from me." On the lower middle left panel Sebastian, shown at work wearing their glasses and a mask desperately relates their troubles to coworkers, "In the dream I tried telling my coworkers but nobody believed me." "Micky stole $4000 from me!" To which the coworker responds, "No Way." The lower bottom middle right panel shows Sebastian in profile with their thumb pointing backwards as if towards Micky, speaking to a coworker Sebastian says "Micky stole $4000 from me!" The Coworker responds, "No, there's no way he did." In the bottom panel Sebastian speaking to another coworker looking concerned says, "Why does nobody believe that this happened??" The coworker responds "Because there's no way yoou even had $4,000."
 
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